Going for a walkabout in Linz – with your ears wide open

20.07.2009

The great “Hörstadt” initiative makes it possible for you to explore Linz’s urban space – with your ears. The programme includes regular guided tours and leisurely strolls featuring some of the city’s most remarkable acoustic hotspots.

The oases of quiet at Centralkino and St Mary’s, the Akustikon in Pfarrgasse, the bugle calls from the spire of Stadtpfarrkirche, echoing interior courtyards and thoroughfares in the old part of the city – these and other acoustically remarkable spots in the heart of Linz feature in the weekly “Hörstadt” guided tours.
The Swiss composer, musician and sound architect Andres Bosshard has set out to identify the properties of soundscapes that are characteristic of Linz. He has discovered 25 “Hörenswürdigkeiten” or acoustic hotspots. Located in some cases where you would least expect them, they’re places characterised by intriguing echoes, rich sonic textures and/or sounds of nature: a plane tree on Schlossberg, the echoing space below Nibelungenbrücke or a meadow in solarCity. Andres Bosshard himself will be there to guide small groups of people who want to know more about Linz’s “Hörenswürdigkeiten”. The Hörstadt Map (available free of charge from info@hoerstadt.at) provides orientation to those who prefer to explore the acoustic space of Linz on their own.

Hörstadt Guided Tours
Every Thursday until 29 October, 5:30 PM, Meeting point: Linz09 Infocenter
(no guided tour on 23 July)
For details go to www.linz09.at/en/veranstaltung-2527251/hoerstadtfuehrungen.html

Going for a walkabout to acoustic hotspots
24 July 2009, 7 PM
25 July 2009, 11 AM and 7 PM
26 July 2009, 11 AM and 7 PM
31 July 2009, 7 PM
1 August 2009, 11 AM and 7 PM
2 August 2009, 11 AM and 7 PM
For bookings call 0732-7070 2009
For more information go to www.linz09.at/en/veranstaltung-2530633/spaziergang_zu_den_hoerenswuerdigkeiten.html